2001 ACC Champions 2002 Maryland Football Prospectus Spring Personnel Breakdown Lettermen Returning (43) Lettermen Lost (19) Starters Returning (15) OFFENSE (20) OFFENSE (8) None OFFENSE (7) Quarterback ‘01 Starts/Career Starts Tailback Jason Crawford, Chris Downs, Bruce Tailback Marc Riley TB Bruce Perry 11/11 Perry FB James Lynch 7/7 Fullback None WR Jafar Williams 9/9 Fullback Bernie Fiddler, Chad Killian, James OT C.J. Brooks 11/11 Lynch OT Matt Crawford 11/31 Wide Receiver Guilian Gary, Daryl Whitmer OG Lamar Bryant 11/17 Wide Receiver Latrez Harrison, Scooter Monroe, Tight End Eric James, Matt Murphy OG Todd Wike 11/32 Rich Parson, Ike Roberts, Maurice TE Jeff Dugan 10/20 Shanks, Jafar Williams Line Melvin Fowler DEFENSE (5) Tight End Jeff Dugan DEFENSE (11) LB E.J. Henderson 10/22 LB Leon Joe 11/11 Line C.J. Brooks, Lamar Bryant, Matt Line Charles Hill DT C.J. Feldheim 11/11 Crawford, Eric Dumas, Lou DE Durrand Roundtree 10/15 Lombardo, Kyle Schmitt, Todd Wike Monté Graves, Reggie Lewis, Marlon Moye-Moore, Ryan Swift, Aaron Th- CB Curome Cox 10/19 ompson DEFENSE (21) SPECIALISTS (2) Line C.J. Feldheim, Landon Jones, P Brooks Barnard 11/29 Durrand Roundtree, William Shime, Secondary Richard Harrigan, Tony Jackson, PK Nick Novak 11/11 Scott Smith, Randy Starks Randall Jones, Rod Littles, Tony Okanlawon Linebacker Leroy Ambush, Jamahl Cochran, Jon Starters Lost (9) Condo, E.J. Henderson, Andrew SPECIALISTS (1) Henley, Leon Joe, Maurice Smith, OFFENSE (3) Curtis Williams Kicker Vedad Siljkovic QB Shaun Hill 11/14 WR Guilian Gary 11/24 Secondary Jamal Chance, Curome Cox, Lettermen at a Glance C Melvin Fowler 11/44 Raymond Custis, Domonique Foxworth, Andrew Smith, Ty OFFENSE DEFENSE (6) Returning: 20 Lost: 7 Stewart, Dennard Wilson DL Charles Hill 11/26 LB Aaron Thompson 11/44 SPECIALISTS (2) DEFENSE LB Mike Whaley 10/21 Brooks Barnard Returning: 21 Lost: 11 FS Randall Jones 11/18 SS Tony Jackson 11/24 Kicker Nick Novak SPECIALISTS CB Tony Okanlawon 7/28 Returning: 2 Lost: 1 SPECIALISTS (0) Starters at a Glance OFFENSE Returning: 8 Lost: 3

DEFENSE Returning: 5 Lost: 6

SPECIALISTS Returning: 2 Lost: 0

11 2001 ACC Champions 2002 Maryland Football Prospectus Head Coach

National MARYLAND ‘70 Coach of the SECOND SEASON AS Year HEAD COACH

They say you can’t go home again, but for the University of Maryland, no choice made more sense than to make sure that Ralph Friedgen did, indeed, return to scoring (40.7 points per game). College Park. The 55-year-old Friedgen (pronounced FREE-jun) And what a return it has been. owns the rare distinction of coordinating the offense Last year, in his first season as a head coach, all for both a collegiate national champion and a Super FRIEDGEN AGREES TO 10-YEAR Friedgen did was lead his alma mater to an outright Bowl team. A 1970 graduate of the University of Mary- ACC championship, a top 10 national ranking, and a land, where he earned a degree in physical education, CONTRACT WITH TERPS berth in the Bowl Championship Series. Friedgen launched his coaching career as a graduate COLLEGE PARK, Md. - University of Maryland foot- In short, “the Fridge” awakened a sleeping giant. assistant before heading off to a number of college ball coach Ralph Friedgen agreed to a 10-year con- tract, through January of 2012, including enhanced Oh, yes, and after 32 seasons as a highly success- coaching jobs including stints at The Citadel (1973- financial terms, director of athletics Deborah A. Yow 79), William & Mary (1980) and Murray State (1981). ful assistant, he also was ’s national announced on Dec. 11, 2001. In ‘82, he returned to Maryland as offensive coordina- Coach of the Year. "Coach Friedgen has made extraordinary progress In what truly was a whirlwind year for Friedgen, tor and offensive line coach under Ross, with Friedgen’s and is fully committed to continue to build Maryland who took over as the Terrapins’ 33rd field general in tenure lasting until 1986. During that stretch, the Terps football into a perennial, Top 20 program," said Yow. late November 2000, the Terps were the story of the captured three consecutive ACC championships (1983- "There could be no better fit for our institution. He season in college football in 2001. 85) and played in four bowl games. All told, the Terra- shares our values related to graduation rates and Undeterred by a preseason media poll which tabbed pins were 39-15-1 from 1982-86 and won two bowl embraces the concept of the student-athlete." the Terps to finish no higher than seventh in the nine- games (the Sun Bowl in 1984 and the Cherry Bowl in team ACC, Friedgen and his troops stampeded their way 1985). It is the type of success Friedgen intended to to the national stage with seven consecutive wins to re-instill in the current group of Terrapins. The Ross-Friedgen connection began in 1973, open the season, including a never-say-die comeback “I think the football experience should be fun and when Ross hired the former Maryland offensive lineman victory over 15th-ranked on national TV what is fun to me is winning,” said Friedgen. “Our as defensive line coach at The Citadel. Friedgen spent which stood as the Terps’ signature win of the 2001 goals will be to be a Top 20 team, year in and year out. seven seasons at The Citadel, the last three as offen- campaign. The Terps wrapped up their first ACC title I am looking forward to a lot of success here at Mary- sive coordinator and offensive line coach. Friedgen then since 1985 with late-season victories over Clemson and land.” worked one season (1980) as at NC State, and were selected to play in the FedEx Orange During his five-year stay at Maryland under Ross, William & Mary and one season (1981) as assistant head Bowl. Friedgen was, along with coach Joe Krivak, coach at Murray State before Ross tapped him to be his It was truly a landmark season for the Terps, who instrumental in the development of future pro quarter- offensive coordinator at Maryland in 1982. became the first ACC team other than Florida State to backs , and , Friedgen followed Ross to Georgia Tech in 1987, win an outright league title since the Seminoles joined all of whom spent at least 10 seasons in the National becoming the Yellow Jackets’ offensive coordinator and the league in 1992. Maryland’s 10-victory season marked Football League. Esiason played professionally from quarterbacks coach for the next five seasons, including the first time a Terrapin team won as many games in a 1984-97, Reich from 1985-98 and Gelbaugh from 1986- the 1990 campaign when Tech, unranked in the pre- single season since 1976. 95. These players flourished under Friedgen largely be- season, captured the national championship with an Named the winner of the Frank Broyles Award as cause they strode to meet his expectations, the same 11-0-1 record. The national title came just two years the top assistant coach in the country in 1999, Friedgen as those he works to instill today. after the Jackets had posted back-to-back seasons of won no less than 13 national coaching citations in 2001, “I can show the players how to win and how to three wins or less. When Ross was named head coach of capturing such coveted awards as the Bobby Dodd, win is knowing how not to lose,” said Friedgen. “If the Chargers in 1992, he tapped Friedgen to Walter Camp, Eddie Robinson and Associated Press coach they put forth the effort and will work, they will win. serve as running game coordinator for two seasons of the year trophies. There is a very fine line between winning and losing; it (1992-93) before elevating him to offensive coordina- Friedgen was named the Terps’ 33rd head coach is a perception. If you look at the places where I have tor in 1994, when the Chargers advanced to Super Bowl on Nov. 29, 2000 after a highly successful 32-year stint been — whether it is at Georgia Tech the first time XXIX for the first time in franchise history. During his as an assistant coach, including the previous five at when we were 2-9 and 3-8 and then end up winning the time with the Chargers, Friedgen helped a club that had Georgia Tech, where he orchestrated one of the most national championship, or the San Diego Chargers when not made the playoffs in a decade reach postseason potent offensive units in the land. From 1998-2000, we went 2-14 and then end going 11-5 and making the play three times in five seasons. the Yellow Jackets averaged nearly 37 points and more playoffs and going to the Super Bowl — you have to Friedgen spent 20 seasons with Ross in coaching than 444 yards of total offense per game while posting learn how to win and I think I know how to do that. It stops at The Citadel, Maryland, Georgia Tech and the a cumulative record of 27-8-1 (.771). The ’99 Yellow is going to be hard work, though. [Student-athletes] San Diego Chargers. Friedgen returned to Tech in 1997, Jackets, let by Heisman runner-up Joe Hamilton, fin- have to work hard, practice hard, and be disciplined. where he served another successful stint as offensive ished No. 1 nationally in total offense (a school-record They are going to have to do things that are right, not coordinator and quarterbacks coach, this time under 509 yards per game) and ranked second nationally in only on the field but off the field as well.” then-head coach George O’Leary. 12 2001 ACC Champions 2002 Maryland Football Prospectus

have a Terrapin now as the head coach. The alumni, the undefeated and averaged 44 points per game running fans, the former players; we all have to become a strong what was then an unusual multiple offense. It was an force. Part of that is going to be recruiting in the state offense run by a 190-pound quarterback later recruited and I am going to rely on those former players to get by Maryland named Ralph Friedgen, Jr. the better prep players to stay in state.” Friedgen and his wife, the former Gloria Spina, Friedgen’s coaching roots run deep. His father, have three daughters: Kelley, 24; Kristina, 15, and Ralph, Sr., was a high school coach for more than 30 Katharine, 13. Gloria is currently serving as an adjunct years and masterminded, among other teams, the 1964 professor at the University of Maryland. Westchester County (N.Y.) High School team that went

ACC Coach of the Year Known for develop- ing balanced offensive at- tacks with multiple looks, Tech was one of only two teams in the country in 1999 to average at least 200 yards rushing and 200 yards passing. Tech also accom- plished the feat under Friedgen’s guidance in 1990, ‘91 and ‘98. The 1999 team, with the diminutive Hamilton calling the signals at quarterback, set 59 school records, rewriting many marks established by the 1990 national championship team, which was led by another Friedgen pupil, signal-caller Shawn Jones (1989-92). Friedgen was a finalist for the Broyles Award as the nation’s top assistant coach in 1998 when the Rambling Wreck set a then-school record with 50 touchdowns. The Friedgen File Friedgen, who also earned his master’s degree from FAST FACTS the University of Maryland, is the first Maryland alum Full Name Ralph Harry Friedgen since Bob Ward (1967-68) to serve as the Terps’ head Pronunciation FREE-jun football coach. Friedgen originally came to Maryland as Date of Birth April 4, 1947 Hometown Harrison, N.Y. a quarterback in the mid-‘60s and spent most of his Alma Mater Maryland, ’70 career as an offensive lineman, lettering in 1968 and Family Wife, Gloria; daughters, Kelley (24), Kristina (15), Katharine (13) capturing Academic All-ACC honors the same season. Playing Experience Guard, one letter at Maryland (1968) He was a two-time winner of the George C. Cook Memo- Years in Coaching (College) 33 (28) rial Award (1968-69) for having the highest academic average on the football team. COACHING EXPERIENCE “Coach Friedgen is an experienced and consistently Maryland successful football coach who also has a passion for 2001- Head Coach Maryland,” said Maryland athletic director Deborah A. Georgia Tech Yow. “He understands the ACC, embraces Maryland’s 1997-2000 Assistant Coach - Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line philosophy of the student-athlete and has a clear and San Diego Chargers compelling vision for returning Maryland to national 1994-96 Assistant Coach - Offensive Coordinator; 1992-93 Assistant Coach - Running Game Coordinator/H-Backs/Tight Ends prominence.” Georgia Tech Because of his obvious ties to Maryland as a uni- 1987-91 Assistant Coach - Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks versity and a state, Friedgen has stated implicitly that Maryland he wants to keep the area’s best players at home. 1982-86 Assistant Coach - Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line “I think that has to be the main focus of our Murray State recruiting,” said Friedgen. “We have to get the better 1981 Assistant Head Coach players from the state. Not every player is meant to William & Mary 1980 Assistant Coach - Offensive Coordinator come to the University of Maryland, but a large portion The Citadel of them should. I know a lot of coaches in this area 1977-79 Assistant Coach - Offensive Coordinator and they know me from the last time I was here, and a 1973-76 Assistant Coach - Defensive Line lot of the coaches are former Maryland players and I Maryland think it is time the Maryland community unites. We 1969-72 Graduate Assistant

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Assistant Coaches Football Support Staff

GARY BLACKNEY CHARLIE TAAFFE TOM BRATTAN TOM DEAHN JOHN DONOVAN Def. Coordinator/ Off. Coordinator/QB’s Offensive Line Director, Asst. Recruiting Coordinator Secondary Siena ‘75 Delaware ‘72 Football Operations Johns Hopkins ‘97 Connecticut ‘67 Heidelberg ‘87

JAMES RAY RYCHLESKI BRIAN FLINN GREG SESNY FRANKLIN Running Backs/ Special Teams Coord./TE’s Graduate Asst./Offense Graduate Asst./Defense Wide Receivers Recruiting Coordinator Millersville ‘79 Mount Union ‘97 Catholic ‘99 East Stroudsburg ‘95 Towson ‘92

AL SEAMONSON ROD SHARPLESS DAVE SOLLAZZO Outside / Inside Linebackers Defensive Line SANDY WORTH DWIGHT GALT Special Teams Maryland ‘75 The Citadel ‘77 Head Trainer Strength Coach Wisconsin ‘82 Maryland ‘73 Maryland ‘81

MITCH WILKENS RON OHRINGER Football Video Coordinator Equipment Manager Tennessee ‘97 Maryland ‘85

Defensive Coordinator Gary Blackney Offensive Coordinator Charlie Taaffe 14